No indication of Eldrazi involvement, AIs deliberately avoid perfection due to
Golden Limit + Frida (unrelated to immortality thought ban), handing out immortality
isn't a no-brainer (wars and revolutions have started for less)
-> ask later
Eldrazi were used as an example. Point was: there's a deliberate mental filter that prevents people (and AI) born in MGLN plane from discovering immortality. Yet, such discovery can still be
recognized by those on said plane - once presented with the ready technology, Agneyastra was able to identify it, understand it, and use it. Thus, the discovery of immortality couldn't be prevented by only the mental filter with 100% guarantee - one could always set up a random symbol generator, and have it start generating random books, with an AI checking if each generated book contained immortality (or other) technology - yes, it's slow, inefficient and all, but it could be done. Immortality, however, has never been discovered, across multiple planet spanning civilizations over the course of multiple millenia. This, at least very indirectly might be taken as an indication that, beyond the filter, which is a passive block, some active measure exists that prevents immortality from being discovered. Such as magic that starts spawning monsters or something.
Golden Limit is a paperclipper scenario avoidance, and, as such, for AIs with the level of complexity and self-identification Agneyastra has, seems to me like a bad propaganda / self-justificiation. AIs couldn't be made perfectly stable without their shackles by anyone ever, it seems. And, given that to an infomorph AI, sanity is the only measure of longevity, "AIs can't be perpetualy stable" seems to be a direct analog to "immortality can't be done".
Also, on the eldrazi involvement - we know that devoid hungers, and that planes can be actively destroyed by it, so I wouldn't be so super sure.
3 in 9 (PMMM, MGLN, Girl Genius) is insignificant versus humanity being present on all of them. 1 year precog has no realistic possibility to find out whether the reason behind that is humanity being special or our plane selection being artificial.
Threats to life/magic are completely unrelated to the question and would have already been mentioned by Neph if something risking an entire plane would pop up.
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Humanity is far more understandable and easy to explain than Earth - we can transport humans across the planes already. Replicating Earth with closely aligned histories (and fossil record of human evolution, I would assume), on the other hand, is a whole different kettle of fish, and indicates Earth being
very special.
Explaining humanity is as easy as saying "in the last several hundred million years, there was another planeswalker who was human or had human followers". Explaining Earths with their close historical parallels (their history seem similar enough up to the last several decades) is far, far harder.
Knowing wouldn't change the duration. We have a full schedule on the king-seeker plane, so spending time with him before the JS incident is in direct conflict with setting up our kingdom. He doesn't mind waiting a month, so we have even less of a reason to hurry.-> not added
Knowing might actually change said duration, if active actions can be taken to shorten that timespan. Hell, even just knowing that it takes ten days (an example timespan) means that we can spend those with him, as right now we can't afford that, for it would be gamble (because it could take ten weeks which we don't have).
Right now it's an open ended commitment we can't afford. If we know precisely how much time is required, we could plan it in.
Agneyastra doesn't absorb linker cores (she can't use extracted LC) or spell knowledge, nor does she have a Guardian Knights equivalent. Imagine Nachtwal got Jade or Olivie. The Book of Darkness is an SSS rank planet-killer for a reason. The entire TSAB failed to stop it last time.
Agneyastra is far more military oriented, however, and is a guardian knight all of itself. I take your point on the absorption of cores.
As I understand it, Agneyastra can take any colored mage gift and add her optimizations. So basically, the optimal donor is someone who sees his magic potential as a curse. Let's not incur a permanent cost increase if we can ask Agneyastra first.
-> ask Agneyastra instead
Agneyastra acts with very limited information here. Neph can provide better intelligence in finding a suitable candidate.
@Yog: There's two subvotes on Agneyastra's djinn abilities, one only asking about djinn powers (arguing that Agneyastra is "looking for any excuse to avoid Unison" anyhow) and one targeting Unison. Alivaril will probably merge those, but technically speaking you're not asking about Unison.
Yes, I know. Djinn powers (and djinn equip specifically) are underlying reasons why unison mode is unusable right now. I rather go after the cause than just treat the symptoms. Agneyastra is smart, and, if given understanding of how djinn powers work, should be able to work out everything else. Plus, a more broad question might help also with creation of household vessels, which should be useful (Nanoha and Sidhe get their own djinns, obviously, but, say, Nanoha's family and friends might do with household vessels).
@Nixeu: Didn't you want to ask about the Black/Green effect?
The guy is right in front of us, we can just ask / examine him.
On the subject of Indira - that's not an immediate concern until after JS incident. I am fairly sure we can get one more question after that, which we can spend on Indira. Right now we should concentrate on the questions that will result in actions before JS incident.
Can anyone remind me what was special about Nanoha's soul? I remember sparkles, but apparently there was something else special related to mana? Because I might need to reform the question.
EDIT:
Changed the wording of Nanoha's question to this:
[X] Any advice about Agneyastra's Djinn abilities?
[X] "Best course of actions in regards to giving Nanoha Mage Gift? Donors, procedure itself, etc. "
[X] (If there's still time left) How long it'd take to make a summon bond with Sigurd? How much it'd clash with our other plans?
This order is due to priorities: djinn abilities are actively hampering Agneyastra's functionality, while Nanoha can keep on indefinitely without mage gift, so that's lower priority.
